Taken From: The United Nations Convention on
Biological Diversity, Article 8a-e; United Nations Global Biodiversity
Assessment, Section 13.4.2.2.3; US Man and the Biosphere Strategic Plan,
UN/US Heritage
Corridor Program, "The Wildlands Project", Wild Earth, 1992,.
Also see Science, "The High Cost of Biodiversity," 25 June,
1993, pp 1968-1871 and the Border 21 Sidebar of NAFTA. The very high
percentage of buffer zone in the West is due to the very high percentage
of federal land.